We can have a better higher-education system, or we can have schools that cater to the elite and privileged. We can’t have both.
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Generation Union
Millennials and Gen Zers are the most pro-union generation since the 1930s and ’40s—and probably more so.
Posted inWorking in America
The Union of Autoworkers and Grad Students
With last week’s victory at the University of California, roughly 100,000 UAW members work for universities.
Posted inEducation in America
The Ivy League’s Legitimacy Crisis
Columbia University’s incredible profit bonanza after the pandemic is indicative of a wider problem.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Grad Student Strike at Michigan the First Pandemic Pushback on Campus
Plus, Louis DeJoy in campaign finance trouble. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for September 8, 2020.
Posted inEducation in America
International Students Lead the Resurgence in Graduate Student Unionization
Despite facing higher hurdles than their U.S. counterparts, they’re in the vanguard of campus worker activism.
Posted inTAP
How Grad Students Can Unionize Despite Trump’s NLRB
Last Friday, in one of its least unexpected diktats, the National Labor Relations Board, now controlled by Trump appointees, indicated that it’s going to revoke the right of graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants at private universities to bargain collectively. (Whether grad students can unionize at public universities is up to the […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s NLRB Is Picking a Fight with Graduate Students
And graduate students are looking to fight back.
Posted inEducation in America
Study: International Students Avoiding U.S. Graduate Schools
International students vote with their feet. For the first time in more than a decade, university admissions officials reported a decrease in the number of applications to graduate school programs from international students, according to a recent Council of Graduate Schools study. Researchers found that international graduate applications declined by 3 percent and first-time enrollments […]
Posted inEducation in America
The GOP Tax Plan Places Huge Burden on Graduate Students
Late last week, House Republicans passed the “Tax Cuts and Job Act,” a bill they claim will cut taxes and raise wages for the majority of Americans. One group that would see a huge tax increase are graduate students. Many of them survive on modest stipends, but they could see their taxes quadruple under the […]